Quartet Vivancos

Quartet Vivancos

Jordi Prim and Biel Ricart, violins | Estela Megías, viola | Joaquim Tejedor, cello

PROGRAMME

Joseph Haydn: String Quartet No. 2 in E Flat Major, Op. 9 / Franz Schubert: String Quartet No. 13 in A minor «Rosamunde», D. 804

It was not infrequent in 1760 to find works written for two violins, viola and cello, but in reality it is Joseph Haydn who laid the foundations of the string quartet genre with his 68 quartets written throughout the course of his life as a composer, from the end of 1750 to 1803. Haydn’s quartets had a great influence on later composers, not just because they are great works of the genre but also for the fact that they were published quite quickly, even at the beginning without the authorization of the composer, and simultaneously in several countries. Schubert wrote quartets from very young using those of Haydn, Mozart and the first from Beethoven as an example. Of the 15 quartets that he wrote, they only heard one of the last four, number 13, in which already freed from the classic influence is presented in a personal language full of drama.